A skill your agent uses when judging whether a robotics project fits RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems), the single-track selective venue whose bar is a scientific claim about robotics, and when…

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Install Rss Topic Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rss-topic-selection -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills rss-topic-selection --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/RSS-Skills/skills/rss-topic-selection .claude/skills/rss-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
rss-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
884 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when judging whether a robotics project fits RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems), the single-track selective venue whose bar is a scientific claim about robotics, and when…

  • Works in 3 steps: Claim probe — write the contribution as… → Audience probe — RSS attendees span… → Compression probe — the 2026 format is 8…
  • Judging whether a robotics project fits RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems)
  • SKILL.md covers The one question RSS asks, Routing table (from RSS's seat), Three-part fit probe and Worked micro-decision, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Rss Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when judging whether a robotics project fits RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems), the single-track selective venue whose bar is a scientific claim about robotics, and when routing instead toward ICRA, IROS, CoRL, HRI, WAFR, T-RO, or IJRR based on claim type, evidence shape, and audience.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Judging whether a robotics project fits RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems)
  • The single-track selective venue whose bar is a scientific claim about robotics
  • When routing instead toward ICRA
  • IJRR based on claim type

Example prompts

  • “/rss-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Claim probe — write the contribution as a single declarative sentence with no
  2. Audience probe — RSS attendees span planning, perception, learning, control,
  3. Compression probe — the 2026 format is 8 pages excluding references, a ceiling

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Rss Topic Selection loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 884 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~78
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 884 words, ~1,701 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/rss-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
rss-topic-selection
description
Use when judging whether a robotics project fits RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems), the single-track selective venue whose bar is a scientific claim about robotics, and when routing instead toward ICRA, IROS, CoRL, HRI, WAFR, T-RO, or IJRR based on claim type, evidence shape, and audience.

RSS Topic Selection

Decide whether the project belongs at RSS before any writing starts. RSS is the deliberately small, single-track robotics conference run under the RSS Foundation: every accepted paper is presented to the entire audience, so the program committee selects for work the whole field should hear about. That structure creates the venue's distinctive question, and this skill applies it.

The one question RSS asks

What does this paper claim about robotics — as science — that was not known before?

  • A property proved about a class of planners; a measured bottleneck the community misattributed; a representation whose suitability for robot data is argued and then tested; a capability shown to transfer for a stated reason — all RSS-shaped.
  • "We integrated known components and the system works well" is a legitimate result, but it is a systems demonstration, and at RSS it must still carry an insight: what does the integration reveal that component papers could not?
  • The 2026 CFP welcomes both Science and Systems contributions; the shared requirement is a contribution statement a skeptic could test, not a capabilities inventory.

Routing table (from RSS's seat)

If the project is...VerdictRationale
One sharp idea + evidence sized to itRSS coreSingle-track audience rewards concentrated novelty
A broad integrated platform, many components, no isolable insightICRA / IROSHigher-volume multi-track programs absorb breadth
Learning-centric, benchmark-driven, embodiment secondaryCoRLRobot-learning community is the right jury
Human-subject study as the main evidenceHRIStudy-design reviewing lives there
Pure algorithmic-foundations result, no experiment plannedWAFR or a theory venueRSS still expects an empirical anchor
Needs 15+ pages of proofs or longitudinal experimentsT-RO / IJRRJournal length; RSS caps at 8 pages excl. references (2026)

Three-part fit probe

Run these in order; failing any one is a re-route signal, not a death sentence:

  1. Claim probe — write the contribution as a single declarative sentence with no system name in it. If the sentence is empty without the system name, the insight is not yet separable from the artifact.
  2. Audience probe — RSS attendees span planning, perception, learning, control, and design. Would a session chair from a different subfield still care? If the result matters only inside one benchmark community, CoRL or a workshop is kinder.
  3. Compression probe — the 2026 format is 8 pages excluding references, a ceiling the CFP explicitly frames as not a target. If the argument cannot be made crisply, the project may be a journal paper wearing conference formatting.

Worked micro-decision

A team has a legged robot climbing unstructured rubble using a new terrain-contact estimator plus an off-the-shelf controller. As a platform story it routes to ICRA. But if they can show the estimator's confidence signal predicts failures two footsteps ahead — and that this predictive structure, not raw accuracy, is what enables recovery — they now own a falsifiable claim about proprioceptive sensing, and RSS becomes the natural home. Same hardware, different paper.

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Claim taxonomy: what an RSS-shaped assertion looks like

Concrete templates a project can aim to instantiate — each is falsifiable and system-name-free:

  • Property claim — "planners of class C converge to suboptimal solutions; variant C' restores optimality." (The theorem-first lane.)
  • Bottleneck claim — "in task family T, failures are dominated by factor F, not the factor the literature optimizes."
  • Representation claim — "encoding the problem as R suits robot data because of property P, and evidence across tasks/platforms bears P out."
  • Transfer claim — "capability K generalizes across E for stated reason R, and breaking R breaks the transfer."
  • Measurement claim — "the community's standard metric M mis-ranks methods under condition X; here is the corrected instrument."

If none of these templates fits even loosely, the project is probably a systems report or an application study — respectable, but routed elsewhere.

Signals to weigh before committing the January slot

SignalReading
The team can state the claim without naming the robotStrong RSS signal
The most exciting artifact is a video, not a findingDemo gravity — reframe or reroute
Reviewers from planning AND learning would both engageWhole-audience fit confirmed
Evidence exists only in simulation, claim mentions the worldClose the gap or scope the claim
The natural length is 14 pagesJournal-shaped; consider T-RO/IJRR
The idea would still matter if the success rate were 20% lowerInsight-driven, not benchmark-driven

Cycle discipline

  • Scope emphasis and paper-type wording shift per edition; reread the current CFP (roboticsconference.org/information/cfp/) before the final call.
  • Deadline geometry matters for routing: RSS 2026 closed in late January for a July conference; ICRA and CoRL sit elsewhere in the year — see rss-workflow for the full calendar argument.
  • The Science/Systems paper-type wording was specific to the 2026 CFP; confirm the current cycle's categories before framing the contribution statement around them.

When RSS is the wrong home for excellent work

Fit failure is not quality failure. Recognize these honorable mismatches early:

  • A superbly engineered platform whose lessons are in the integration details — the field needs it published, at ICRA/IROS length and breadth.
  • A benchmark or dataset whose value is adoption, not insight — a track designed for artifacts (or a journal) serves it better than a single-track talk slot.
  • A result whose proof apparatus dwarfs its empirical story — WAFR or a journal gives the proofs room the 8-page ceiling cannot.
  • Work whose audience is one application community (agriculture, surgery, logistics) — the domain venue's reviewers can evaluate what RSS's generalists cannot.

Output format

text
[RSS verdict] core fit / fixable framing / re-route
[Scientific claim] <one sentence, no system name>
[Whole-audience hook] <why a distant subfield cares>
[Evidence-to-claim gap] <what is missing>
[If re-route] ICRA / IROS / CoRL / HRI / WAFR / T-RO / IJRR + one-line reason

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Files

Just SKILL.md in RSS-Skills/skills/rss-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Rss Topic Selection

What does Rss Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when judging whether a robotics project fits RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems), the single-track selective venue whose bar is a scientific claim about robotics, and when…. Rss Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when judging whether a robotics project fits RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems), the single-track selective venue whose bar is a scientific claim about robotics, and when routing instead toward ICRA, IROS, CoRL, HRI, WAFR, T-RO, or IJRR based on claim type, evidence shape, and audience.

When should I use Rss Topic Selection?

Rss Topic Selection fits situations like: judging whether a robotics project fits RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems); the single-track selective venue whose bar is a scientific claim about robotics; when routing instead toward ICRA; IJRR based on claim type.

How do I install Rss Topic Selection in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rss-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (RSS-Skills/skills/rss-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/rss-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Rss Topic Selection in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rss-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (RSS-Skills/skills/rss-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/rss-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Rss Topic Selection in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rss-topic-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/rss-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/rss-topic-selection, .github/skills/rss-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/rss-topic-selection in your project.

What does Rss Topic Selection need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Rss Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.

Does Rss Topic Selection access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Rss Topic Selection safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Rss Topic Selection use?

Rss Topic Selection is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Rss Topic Selection use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Rss Topic Selection?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,216 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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